Cheney: Benghazi ‘one of the worst incidents that I can recall’
Source: Raw Story
The man who was vice president during the Sept. 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in 2001 says that last years attack in Benghazi was one of the worst incidences, frankly, that I can recall in my career.
In an interview on Fox News on Monday, former Vice President Dick Cheney accused President Barack Obama and his administration of lying about the attack in Benghazi and then staging a cover up to hide the lies.
They lied, Cheney said. They claimed it was because of a demonstration video so that they wouldnt have to admit it was really all about their incompetence.
I think its one of the worst incidents, frankly, that I can recall in my career, he insisted. If they told the truth about Benghazi, that it was a terrorist attack by an Al-Qaeda-led group, it would destroy the confidence that was the basis of his campaign for reelection.
They were trying to perpetuate this fiction that there was no terrorist threat because they got bin Laden and thats a lie.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/14/cheney-benghazi-one-of-the-worst-incidents-that-i-can-recall/
...wtf? O.o
Richardo
(38,391 posts)...and I say that with all due respect.
samsingh
(17,594 posts)tofuandbeer
(1,314 posts)What a lying freak. Take that new heart and go crawl under a rock and die.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,295 posts)9/11
the falsification of intelligence on Iraq
his lies on TV about Iraq
the deaths of over 100,000 people in Iraq
Abu Ghraib
the deliberate exposure of Valerie Plame as a CIA agent, endangering CIA operatives
Hurricane Katrina
the theft of the 2000 election
and, going back a few more years,
Iran-Contra, during which he was a congressman who did nothing
Watergate, during which he worked at the White House
That's just the stuff in which he had personal involvement - and only some of it, all worse than Benghazi. I'm sure people can add a lot more.
Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)Condoning Torture
Falsely Tying 9/11 to Saddam
Condoning Guantanamo
Secret Meetings with oil executives
Standing by during the Crash of 2008
Picking himself as VP
Condemning gay marriage while having a gay daughter
others can add to this
Sanity Claws
(21,846 posts)zwyziec
(173 posts)This draft dodger, fed at the government trough, excuse for a human being, is now being trotted out by the 1% who control him, to bloviate on Benghazi! This fool! This tool! This troll! This evil man.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)It's supposed to pump oxygenated blood to that screwed-up brain.of his.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)All mine can do is PHHHHHHHAAAAPPPPPPppppppppt!
Impressive, Mr. Cheney.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)It took me a moment, but I got it!
sinkingfeeling
(51,444 posts)remember what she'd done.
Blue Owl
(50,347 posts)Before pointing fingers, you might wanna take a look at that sick fuck in the mirror, Dick.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)can such bold lies be accepted by the american people.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)upaloopa
(11,417 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,367 posts)ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)ruffburr
(1,190 posts)Not much left to say, What a Dick !!
deurbano
(2,894 posts)Published January 30, 2006 (Associated Press)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,183262,00.html
<<A former defense secretary for Ronald Reagan says he implored the president to put Marines serving in Beirut in a safer position before terrorists attacked them in 1983, killing 241 servicemen.
"I was not persuasive enough to persuade the president that the Marines were there on an impossible mission," Caspar Weinberger says in an oral history project capturing the views of former Reagan administration officials."
..."They had no mission but to sit at the airport, which is just like sitting in a bull's-eye," Weinberger said. "I begged the president at least to pull them back and put them back on their transports as a more defensible position.">>
nclib
(1,013 posts)Worse than 911?
KansDem
(28,498 posts)I mean, a really short memory.
Beacool
(30,247 posts)Beacool
(30,247 posts)He may also want to take up painting. I heard that's it's calming.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)Life Long Dem
(8,582 posts)Because the recalling doesn't seem to go as far back as 2001.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Reagan during Contra investigation, couldn't recall anything either. Fuck you Dick. You can't die soon enough for me you piece of shit.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,563 posts)of an out of office official who keeps playing politics.......
peace13
(11,076 posts)Maybe the new heart has clouded the Dark Force's memory. An innocent heart would have to protect itself from the black hearted, evil forces that course through the corpse that is Mr. Cheney!
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)Cheney must have had one too many electric jolts from the 30 or 40 pacemakers he's had put into his shell.
dmosh42
(2,217 posts)denvine
(799 posts)Unf#*king believable. Pure evil!
Little_Wing
(417 posts)n/t
tartan2
(314 posts)he is irrelevant and needs to crawl back under his rock!
WRH2
(87 posts)war criminal
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)It was bad that there was an attack and people died, but no one was trying to pretend "there was no terrorist threat". There really is nothing about what the right wing claims here that makes any sense.
I dislike many of our foreign policy decisions, but the stuff that sucks are mostly extensions of his fucking policies that were not ended in their entirety. The only thing about this story that is one of the worst incidents that I can recall Is the fact that Dick committed War crimes when he conspired to institute Torture policies that were carried out in our country's name (Torture is a war crime we have hanged people for) but he continues to walk around a free man offering his opinions. He often BRAGS about his crimes while continuing to advocate torture.
No one should be above the law, certainly not dead eye fucking Dick Cheney!
mokawanis
(4,438 posts)what a vile disgusting pig. fuck you, cheney.
Galraedia
(5,022 posts)struggle4progress
(118,273 posts)At least 96 fatalities
John2
(2,730 posts)are a trip. What did Obama say; the GOP is a side show right now. They cry Wolf and expect everybody to come running. Just what have they done for us lately? The Sequester, Gun issue, why should we care about the GOP?
mwooldri
(10,302 posts)It wants its brain back.
IMO, Mr. Cheney has a very selective memory. I can think of a number of incidents that are far worse than the 11th September, 2012 attack on a US mission. Don't get me started on that laundry list.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)against the wrong country that will cost U.S. taxpayers $2 trillion' incident while he was V.P.
Volaris
(10,269 posts)Christ, will I be happy when this man is in the cold, eternal ground.